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Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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South Korean environmentalists hold up red cards during a press conference demanding South Korean government shut down nuclear facilities in South Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 18, 2011. Fears over possible radiation contamination are growing in South Korea, the country closest to Japan, after Japanese nuclear power plants were damaged by earthquakes last week.​
 

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A staff member from Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council stands next to a billboard demanding that passangers from Japan need to accept a radiation check at Shungshan airport in Taipei on March 17, 2011 following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear facility north of Tokyo. Taiwan's leading telecom operator said that two jointly owned undersea cables linking Japan and the United States had been damaged by Japan's devastating earthquake.​
 

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Members of the Indonesia Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (BAPETEN) scan stewardesses arriving from Japan for radiation exposure at the Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta March 18, 2011. World Health Organisation (WHO) authorities believe the spread of radiation from a quake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan remains limited and appears to pose no immediate risk to health.​
 

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Members of the Indonesia Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (BAPETEN) scan passengers arriving from Japan for radiation exposure at the Sukarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta March 18, 2011.​
 

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Evacuees spend the night at an evacuation center set in a gymnasium in Yamagata, northern Japan March 18, 2011,. where many are from the vicinity of Fukushima nuclear power plant. As Japan entered its second week after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami flattened coastal cities and killed thousands, the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl and Japan's worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two looked far from over.​
 

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Sixty-four-years-old Andriy Chudinov, one of the first Chernobyl trouble-shooters to get to the disaster site, looks at pictures from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in his apartment in Kiev March 18, 2011. If there is one person outside Japan who knows what the crisis workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant are going through now it is Chudinov, who looks back on those traumatic events with calmness, sadness and resignation.​
 

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Ukrainians recall Chernobyl sacrifice, applaud Japan
By Pavel Polityuk

KIEV, March 16 (Reuters) - If there is one person outside Japan who knows what the crisis workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant are going through now it is 64-year-old Andriy Chudinov.
One of the first Chernobyl trouble-shooters to get to the disaster site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986 and a rarity in that he survived, Chudinov looks back on those traumatic events with calmness, sadness and resignation.
He generously applauds the workers who are fighting to bring Japan's quake-damaged nuclear reactors under control.
"These are good guys. After all, they have had it even worse than we did. They had a tsunami first and now there are several reactors with problems. That's a nightmare for any atomic worker," he told Reuters on Wednesday.
It remains to be seen whether the Japanese drama will take on the proportions of Chernobyl, when tonnes of nuclear material were spewed across Europe after an explosion and fire at the plant's No. 4 reactor.
The world was different then. It was the Cold War when Ukraine was part of the secretive Soviet Union and Moscow withheld the truth about the disaster for three days.
Chudinov was one of a huge army of workers -- many of them soldiers -- whom Soviet authorities sent in to tackle the Chernobyl disaster which resulted from a test of cooling systems at the plant.
The experiment, which involved demobilising safety systems, went horribly wrong and a series of explosions in the early hours of April 26, 1986, blew the concrete roof off the reactor and sent radioactivity billowing across Europe.
Those drafted in to handle the crisis at risk to their own lives became known as the "liquidators".
Chudinov was a senior operator at reactor No. 3 -- next to the stricken reactor -- at the plant at Prypyat on Ukraine's northern border with Belarus.
"We got to the plant in the morning after the explosion. The unit (No. 4) was destroyed and burning. But there was no reason not to go," he said in a telephone interview.
"We did basically the same as the Japanese are doing now. We tried to stop the reactors. If the fire had spread, the plant would have been uncontrollable," he said.
"From my shift there was not one of my friends who refused to go. It was a question of duty. We knew it was dangerous but we were brought up differently and we didn't even think of not going," Chudinov added.
Back then, there was little protective clothing to hand to shield against radiation. "We wore normal clothes and a face respirator. As we went in to the reactor we were given an iodine preparation which was normally the first emergency aid," he said.

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The official short-term death toll from the accident was 31 but many more people died of radiation-related sicknesses such as cancer. The total death toll and long-term health effects remain a subject of intense debate even 25 years after the disaster though a U.N. 2008 report concluded that only a few thousand people had died as a result.
On pension now and suffering from a blood condition which he attributes to radiation effects, Chudinov says: "I lost many, very many, friends. I haven't counted but an awful lot of them are no longer here. I don't know why I survived. Radiation reacts differently on different people," he said.
Nadezhda Mironenko's husband, Valentin, was then a 38-year-old carpenter whose firm worked at the Chernobyl plant.
He went to the plant to help in the clear-up operation a month after the explosion and remained working in what is now a 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the site until 1992.
He died 5 years later of brain cancer at the age of 49.
"I knew when I accompanied him to work that there was no alternative. One had to go and do one's job. We had that expression -- duty to the Motherland," Mironenko, 62, who now lives on pension in Kiev, told Reuters.
Chernobyl 'liquidators' and their families have benefitted from tax breaks, cheap re-housing, enhanced pensions and other privileges over the years.
But the Japanese drama, evoking memories of 1986, brought 200 or so Chernobyl protesters out in Kiev on Wednesday to complain about government neglect.
Mikola, 64, was a Soviet army officer drafted in with his unit to help the Chernobyl clean-up and was one of a group of protesters outside the Ukrainian government building.
"The general came and said: 'I would rather have 2,000 poisoned (with radiation) if it allows 200 million people to live. We have been sent to work at the reactor'," he said recalling the day he learned he was being sent to the Chernobyl plant.
Half of his military unit died from the consequences, Mikola said.
Another protester, Vladimir Danilenko, 65, who worked as a fireman at the stricken plant, complained bitterly about the government.
"They cancelled our free treatment. They cancelled our free medicine. They have thrown us aside and don't care. That's the big difference between us and Japan." (Additional reporting by Sergiy Karazy)

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by Richard Balmforth; editing by Janet McBride)
 

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An evacuee, who fled from the vicinity of Fukushima nuclear power plant, sits next to laundry hanged out to dry at an evacuation center set in a gymnasium in Yamagata, northern Japan March 18, 2011​
 

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A general view shows the tsunami-damaged Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on March 18, 2011​
 

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Emergency workers bow in front of a body they retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, where the earthquake and tsunami hit last week, March 18, 2011.​

Mar 18, 2011
Japan tsunami town's hilltop crematorium struggles to cope

RIKUZENTAKATA (Japan) - LIFE is brutally hard for survivors of last week's earthquake and tsunami, as is the business of death.
Rescue missions have ended in the small coastal town of Rikuzentakata where nearly 1,800 people are missing, many undoubtedly buried under the rubble of cars, houses, boats and factories which lie strewn around in one giant heap.
From Saturday, workers are focusing on clearing that heap.
The bodies that have been found so far have been laid out in schools and halls awaiting identification.
Those looking for loved ones submit a description to police� - hairstyle, birthmarks, moles or scars. The police cross-reference the descriptions with bodies lying in neat rows and if there is a possible match, show them to the survivors.
In Japan, the vast majority of people are cremated when they die as there is not enough land for burials. Once a body is identified, it can be cremated, but the town's small, hilltop crematorium can only cremate eight bodies a day. -- REUTERS
 

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. Managing Director Akio Komori, left, cries as he leaves after a press conference in Fukushima, Friday, March 18, 2011, a week after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake devastated northeastern Japan. The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that it was overwhelmed by the scale of last week's twin natural disasters, slowing the response to the nuclear crisis that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami.​
 

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. Managing Director Akio Komori, left, cries as he leaves after a press conference in Fukushima, Friday, March 18, 2011, a week after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake devastated northeastern Japan. The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that it was overwhelmed by the scale of last week's twin natural disasters, slowing the response to the nuclear crisis that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami.​

Through no fault of his, he is crying. Looks genuine, not crocodile tears. Tsunami and earthquakes attributed to act of god.

Over in S'pore, so different. When clearcut human error made due to complacency and/or inefficiency, the persons involved can still joke and laugh!
Don't think the Japanese leaders are paid as much as our Morons In White.
 

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China's President Hu Jintao (front) visits the Japanese embassy to convey a message of condolences for the victims of last Friday's massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan, in Beijing, March 18, 2011 in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency.​

China's Hu extends sympathies to quake-hit JapanAFP
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BEIJING, CHINA - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday extended his "sincere sympathies" to disaster-hit Japan during a rare visit to the Japanese embassy in Beijing.
China - whose relations with Japan are often prickly - "deeply felt the pain that the Japanese people are suffering", Hu told Japanese ambassador Uichiro Niwa, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Hu's visit to the embassy led China Central Television's evening news bulletin and came six months after a boat collision in disputed waters in the East China Sea triggered the worst diplomatic crisis between the two countries in years.

State-run television showed images of a sombre-looking Hu meeting with the Japanese ambassador and other officials.
Hu bowed his head to express his condolences to the victims of the devastating 9.0-magnitude quake and ensuing tsunami that killed at least 6,911 people and left half a million homeless.
China, which has so far donated 20,000 tonnes of fuel and $4.5 million in other aid to its stricken Asian neighbour, will "continue to provide necessary assistance to Japan", Hu told the ambassador.
"China and Japan are friendly neighbours," Hu said.
"We wish the Japanese people can overcome these difficulties and rebuild their homes."
Hu said China was "very concerned" about the safety of its nationals in Japan as the country battled to cool a quake-hit nuclear power plant and avert a catastrophe.
China, along with the United States and France, has taken steps to remove their citizens from Japan - despite Tokyo's assurances that the situation did not pose a major health threat outside an evacuation zone near the plant.
China has moved thousands of its nationals in Japan to Tokyo for evacuation from the country, and two Chinese airlines have added flights to accommodate extra demand.
 

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Japan's Superhero Ultraman!

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If there is Tsunami ...

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But the tsunami is too overhelming..

 

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Through no fault of his, he is crying. Looks genuine, not crocodile tears. Tsunami and earthquakes attributed to act of god.

Over in S'pore, so different. When clearcut human error made due to complacency and/or inefficiency, the persons involved can still joke and laugh!
Don't think the Japanese leaders are paid as much as our Morons In White.

Tokyo Electric Power Co report and alter safety figures to pass nuclear power inspections. corrupt Japanese officials work in cahoots with TEPCO executives to cover up safety issues. TEPCO has a history of scandals associated with its nuclear power operations for decades. TEPCO has that much red tape to get away with this.

maintain safety standards and level control are very expensive in a nuclear facility. in general, most corporations would chose to ignore safety issues to make as much money as possible above all else, including the health & safety of humans. corporate malfeasance on economic versus safety issues.

the crying is genuine as he realized the folly of his actions ( money over safety) that escalated Japan nuclear crisis. when the investigative reports on this nuclear crisis is complete, Akio Komori and associates might find themselves charged in court.

天作蘖尤可恕 ( tsunami and earthquakes ) 自作蘖不可活 ( nuclear meltdown )
 

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Picture taken on March 18, 2011 in Paris shows front pages of French newspapers and news magazines bearing the same picture of a Japanese woman, wrapped in a blanket, in the damaged town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on March 13, 2011. This picture appeared in various media throughout the world to illustrate damages in Japan after the powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's eastern coast.

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Japanese fire trucks line a road in Sukuiso, Japan, March 18, 2011. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused widespread damage to northern Japan a week ago. Nearly 7,000 people have been confirmed killed in the double natural disaster, which turned whole towns into waterlogged and debris-shrouded wastelands. Another 10,700 people are missing with many feared dead. Picture taken March 18.​
 

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... Over in S'pore, so different. When clearcut human error made due to complacency and/or inefficiency, the persons involved can still joke and laugh!
Don't think the Japanese leaders are paid as much as our Morons In White.
in sg, dose fat burgers brame peasants n made dem scapegoats ... :mad:
 

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U.S. citizens walk out from Sendai City Hall, in Sendai, northern Japan, as they prepare to evacuate on a bus enroute to Narita international airport and Tokyo station March 19, 2011​
 
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